Cooking Expertise Quotes

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

My dad, he can cook, but he can't cook: it's sort of like 50/50.

Part of being a really good chef or cook is being able to fix disasters.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

Before any exposure on TV, I'm a real chef.

I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They will say make it and it will come out perfectly. They should tell you you're probably going to screw it up the first 10 times you make it.

I've never been a great cook.

I don't barbeque myself because that would involve me cooking. And whereas I can, I'm not a very good cook.

Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

If you're picky, you have to learn about cooking.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

I cook some damn good eggs!

I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.